Thursday, July 24, 2014

SIGOURNEY WEAVER CHANGED WITH THAT WIG: A nice retelling of the making of Galaxy Quest (as one AV Club commenter put it, it's "a behind the scenes look at a film that was a behind the scenes look at a television show"), which again raises a question I've asked before: as good as it was, wouldn't it have been better with originally-cast Alec Baldwin (or Kevin Kline) in the lead role?

8 comments:

Nope. Look, they're both good actors (and in Kline's case, great), but I sincerely think it works better with an actor who's more TV-cheese level. (Also, not as beefy as Baldwin; I think the lead works better with someone kind of in shape but not buff.) So yes, this is the one time in the history of mankind that Tim Allen was the right choice.

Allen was doing Shatner without really realizing he was doing Shatner, if you see what I mean. I'm sorry to insult Tim Allen, but Kevin Kline has too much innate intelligence that shines through. Tim Allen is believable as a not very shrewd man.

I mean, even when Kline is playing a complete idiot in A Fish Called Wanda, we, the viewers, can kind of tell that it's a very smart man playing a stupid one with delusions of intelligence.

P.S. If anyone needs me in the next few minutes, I'll be dangling headfirst out a window.

I think you have the problem just right. You need a guy who's a bit buffonish. A younger Craig T Nelson could have worked, too, but Kevin Kline is way too smart. (And I like Tim Allen as a general matter, even outside of GQ and Toy Story). Kline could have done Dr Lazarus, but not CMDR Taggart

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